The Black Hole War : My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is the second book of Leonard Susskind. It is undoubtedly the author’s most popular book and has raised a lot of questions and sparked many controversies regarding the so-called universal vacuum. In this book, the author discusses about what he thinks would happen to the things inside a black hole once it evaporates.
A black hole is one of the universe’s still unsolved mysteries. A young physicist named Stephen Hawking believes that anything that gets trapped inside a black hole is lost forever. His belief would put everything the world knows about physics at risk and it could mess up the very foundations of modern science particularly the first law of thermodynamics. The first law states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. This is in total contrast with what Hawking believes. So for almost 30 years, author Leonard Susskind, with the help of Gerard t’Hooft, made efforts to disprove Hawking’s theory. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is the beginning of the end of that battle.
In 2004, Stephen Hawking finally conceded. But thanks to his now disproved theory, scientists took a closer look and extended efforts to get to know black holes more. Hawking, losing the battle though he did, is a contributing factor to finding the answer to one of the biggest questions in the entire universe: that our world is just a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.
In The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics, the author makes it clear that black holes are indeed real and that there are plenty of them spread across the entire universe. They are a unique phenomena, more like a giant vacuum but never the less a common existence in the universe. Scientists have been aware of black holes ever since the late 18th century.
The book also contains an introduction to particle physics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity. Here the author shares his journey through quantum physics and string theory as he tries to discover the true nature of black holes. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics also contains an introduction to particle physics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.
Although The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics tackles a very complicated subject, it has been able to reach a wide demographic. Scientists from all over the world were intrigued and inspired at the same time.
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics gives insight to such ungraspable concepts and it makes truer all the many concepts of science this very world accepts. Perhaps one of the things The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is critiqued for is its sort of exaggerated title. Many readers upon seeing “Battle” in the title expect a sort of duel and a constant exchange of bullets or arguments in this case. In this book though, the one-sidedness is evident. It is just the author trying to disprove his opponent’s theory. It seems Hawking isn’t fighting back. Or maybe it was just a mismatch.
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a beautifully written book about the future of stars, unsolved black hole mysteries, modern physics, and quantum mechanics. It makes the seemingly far universe like a short journey, and it takes the readers out of the confines the planet to the cold and vast universe.
